Fast Work.

The “Railway Gazette” reports a recent example of fast work by train staff and passengers at King's Cross station, London. From the moment that an inbound suburban train arrived at the platform, to the time of re-starting with a substantial load of passengers, only 70 seconds elapsed. In this time the inbound engine was uncoupled, the tail lamps were placed on the last car for the outbound journey, the tail lamps were removed from the other end of the eightcar train, and a new engine was moved from an adjoining track, backed up to the train and coupled to it.

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